By María Fernanda Ramírez, InSight Crime: Bolivia is in the midst of a gold rush caused by record gold prices and growing international demand. This gold rush has been facilitated by permissive mining regulations that blur the line between legal and illegal. The spread of mining throughout the country and the broader Amazon in the last…
Tag: police and judicial corruption
MAS is a criminal organization | El MAS es una organización criminal
By Mónica Briançon Messinger, El Potosi: Dirty “suicides” Dirty panorama. Disgusting. Heart-wrenching. There’s no possible explanation for two former national authorities to have “decided” to end their lives, leaving behind a letter declaring themselves not guilty. The first case shook the Bolivian public opinion. It affected, causing intense media tremors, but then, as always, it…
Indigenous threatened by violent invading miners | Indígenas amenazados por violentos mineros invasores
Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive by Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay: Environmental activists in Bolivia say they’ve become the targets of discrimination, death threats and even bombings after speaking out against harmful mining operations in the department of Oruro. The activists, most of them women, have faced escalating violence this year because…
Economy in bankruptcy | Economía en quiebra
Editorial, El Dia: The Economist is the most prestigious specialized publication in the world. Major billionaires, the most serious governments, and leading global companies make decisions based on its articles and opinions. Luis Arce cannot dismiss them as mere “opinion makers” and “doomsayers,” as he often labels those who have been talking for years about…
Dubious deaths linked with MAS corruption | Muertes dudosas vinculadas con la corrupción del MAS
Brújula Digital: Opposition: It is noteworthy that in the “strongest cases” of corruption, some of those involved end up dead The former manager of Bolivian Lithium Deposits (YLB), Juan Carlos Montenegro, in the image: APG. The opposition Comunidad Ciudadana [Citizen Community] warned that in the “strongest cases” where corruption is reported, some involved parties end…
evo and the Victimhood Ideology | evo y la Ideología de la Victimización
By Diego Ayo, El Deber: To jail with the Camba terrorists! The ideology that Evo Morales staunchly defended is called victimhood. He wasn’t right-wing, he wasn’t left-wing: he was a victim. “They have done to me, they have said to me, they have offended me.” That’s the axis of his discourse. Did you commit fraud,…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 